URL lengths

I'm writing a little menu program to generate URL index pages. It's to
make URLs easily available to my Linux machine if there are any problems
with a page/site under NetSurf.

What is the maximum URL length (including POST data) that NetSurf can
handle?

My program is taking text URLs, Ant URL files or Acorn URI files and
parsing them (in the latter case!) to extract the URL string for use in the
menu page, but I need to know the maximum length NetSurf can handle so that
I can provide for all possibilities that it may throw my way.

Or I could just choose an arbitrary large maximum - but what would a
sensible limit be before complaining? 500 characters /seems/ reasonable,
but is it actually?

An genuine real-life number would be better!

John

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